The impacts of partnership on urban governance: Conclusions from recent European research

In this issue of the Policy Review Section , Stephen Hall and Brendan Nevin of the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, University of Birmingham, review the experiences of the first three rounds of the Single Regeneration Budget and against that background consider the next steps in the development of regeneration policy. In the second article, Peter Lee also of the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, examines the policy implications of the recent changes in the methods for identifying deprived areas following the introduction of the Index for Local Deprivation. In the third article, Peter Newman of the School of Built Environment, University of Westminster, and Gilles Verpraet of the Centre d'Analyses et d'Interventions Sociologiques, Paris, set out the findings of a comparative European research network which examined the nature and experience of public-private partnerships in urban governance.